The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-05-20
MINNESOTA NEWS.

| Gopher bounties were paid at Hastings
last week to the amount of $l47.67.
The forest fires in the vicinity of Brain
erd, have already caused heavy losses
S. q. Lamont, a st. Cloud dry goods
man, has had his store closed by the
sheriff.
Twenty-eIght saloon keepers have filed
their applications for June liquor licenses
at Hastings.
A. Women's Relief Corps, auxiliary to
the q. A. r., has been organized at Owa-
tonna with Is members.
Carl Scott has been appointed post
master, at Madelia, Wattonwan county,
vice G. w. Kendall, resigned.
The Journal says it was providence
on our side" that burned the old Mil
waukee depot at Owatonna last week.
The final survey of the Duluth, Red
4 Southern road between Rochester
and Austin is to be made Immediately.
The st. Cloud city council is not dis
posed to view favorably the propositions
to sell their water works to Eastern par
ties.
John Graham of Albert Lea has sued
the Milwaukee d st. Paul for $4,000
damages for injuries received near What
Cheer, Iowa.
Four valuable horses were stolen from
the barn of a farmer named Haughland,
living nine miles north of Hutchinson,
Saturday night. ..
Attire at Albert Lea Thursday night
destroyed the coal house and sheds adj
joining the Winslow house, but did not
damage the hotel.
Talk of Il union depot at Owatonna for
the Milwaukee and Omaha roads. The
Milwaukee will put up temporary
buffdiug for present f,..s,.ossG--
The body found hear Owatonna has
been identified as that of Emile Yanke,
who worked on farm in Deerfeld
The coroner's verdict was suicide.
The missing editor Rathbun, of Peli-
can Rapids, has been heard from in
Ohio, where he has been visiting friends.
His mind is supposed TO be deranged.
Red Wing is highly pleased over their
success in the reform school race, while
Hastings and Pennington are cores
pondingly hot that their claims were ig-
nored.
Analysis of the water from Rochester's
new well shows it to be of the finest
quality for drinking purposes. The only
question now is that of permanence of
supply.
Lake City is havinga hard time trying
to get rid of its marshal, who has been
bounced by the may or, but has faith in
the old adage that possession is nine
points in law.
The Manitoba railroad is to be built
clear around Lake Minnetonka, and
| capitalists are arranging to expend
large sums in further improvements at
that popular resort.
The commission to relocate the reform
school, selected a site at Red Wing yes
terday. The farms embrace about 600
acres and the price paid was about $2O,-
600 or abont $53 per acre.
The citizens of Mortified have offered
the Hubbard Hammock Chair company
bonus of 5000, and site to locate
the factory there. The company will
employ from % to 60 operatives.
The contract for the erection of the
| new science hall at Hamline University
has been let. The building is to be
96x529 feet, three stories in height, and
| will be constructed of red pressed brick,
at cost of $4,000.
S. Whitney, young man living about
three miles south of Fairmont, became
violently insane about week ago, and
yesterday he was sent to the asylum at
st. Peter. The insanity is supposed to
be the result of injuries he sustained
from fall last winter.
The second annual band convention
for Southern Minnesota will be held at
Rochester during the latter part of June.
There will be band tournament OH the
closing day, and competition will be open
to all organized bands in this part of the
state. $500 IN prizes will be awarded.
Four criminal and thirty-four circuit
cases are on the calendar for the May
term of court in Freeborn county. Of
the criminal cases, those of the State
vs.. County Superintendent c. w. Levans
and ex-editor Davidson for libeling ex-
candidate for congress John A. Lovely,
are the most impor taRt.
The body ola middle-aged man was
found Thursday i'm Straight river by
boys fishing near the town of Medford,
Steele county. A wound i'm the back of
the head gave almost undisputable signs
of murder. The coroner held an in
quest Friday at Owatonna. The body
was badly decomposed, and was proba-
bly, placed where found week ago. No
one knows the victim, and nothing
found on his person gives any clue to
his identity.